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Introducing Movieline’s Modern Family Family Member of the Week: ‘The Old Wagon’

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Introducing Movieline’s Modern Family Family Member of the Week: ‘The Old Wagon’

Nice try with your ensemble format, Modern Family , but your cast is still subject to cutthroat ranking systems. Sawwy . Movieline is initiating a weekly competition for Modern Family ‘s rascal-y relatives: the “Family Member of the Week” tally. We’ll select a grand champion from every show and rank the runners-up afterward. Because declaring losers is fun, see. So who’s the top Pritchett/Delgado/Tucker in this week’s roundup? Buckle up in your Pinto and click through to find out.

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The Trailer for Oscar Frontrunner The King’s Speech Doesn’t Stutter

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on The Trailer for Oscar Frontrunner The King’s Speech Doesn’t Stutter

The last two films to win the Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival were Precious and Slumdog Millionaire , so do your best to feign surprise when 2010 winner The King’s Speech winds up on the list of Best Picture nominees next year. If recent history still has you unconvinced of The King’s Speech Oscar bona fides, however, the first trailer for the film will do its best to change your mind.

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Dustin Lance Black on Hoover: ‘There Are More Contradictions’ — and DiCaprio’s In

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Dustin Lance Black on Hoover: ‘There Are More Contradictions’ — and DiCaprio’s In

Reports yesterday that Clint Eastwood approached Joaquin Phoenix to play the G-man object of affection in Hoover stimulated a new flurry of rumors about the project, from whether Leonardo DiCaprio is actually set to play the father of the FBI to whether Eastwood or Phoenix can attract enough studio confidence after their respective fall fizzles of Hereafter and I’m Still Here . The jury remains out on Phoenix, but as Dustin Lance Black told Movieline last week, don’t worry about the power duo at the top.

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So Where’s the Buzz About Sam Worthington and Keira Knightley’s TIFF Drama Last Night?

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According an official count just released by the Toronto International Film Festival, this year’s event spawned nearly two dozen U.S. distribution deals for selections including Super , Rabbit Hole , Cave of Forgotten Dreams , The Conspirator and Beautiful Boy — with more to come in the days and weeks ahead. But one high-profile title in particular — currently idling on Miramax’s shelf — has yielded exactly no industry buzz and a surprising dearth of discussion since its first screening nearly a week ago.

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Distributors go on Shopping Spree at Toronto

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After a relatively slow start, distributors at the Toronto Film Festival have started buying films like it’s pre-recession Sundance. There’s something for everyone in the latest batch of acquisitions: an offbeat coming of age story, an ultra-violent serial killer movie, a 3-D cave documentary and more! Read on to see who picked up what and when you can see it.

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At TIFF: History Class is in Session with Robert Redford’s Conspirator (Just Don’t Fall Asleep)

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Behold the paradox of Robert Redford: Lauded as one of the most innovative, influential filmmaking advocates around, as a filmmaker he has acquired a reputation as a snooze and a scold. In turn, over the last decade especially, I have acquired a reciprocal Redford Reflex: When I heard that his as-yet-unacquired historical drama The Conspirator was screening at TIFF, I felt my eyelids droop ever so slightly, and my throat begin to dry. An independent project with a rich vein of history running through it could be double trouble or a revelation. Either way the Redford Reflex was in full effect; I knew my morning screening would require something large and violently caffeinated.

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Mark Romanek on Never Let Me Go and Who’d Pull Him Out of Music-Video Retirement

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It took a while (and a studio debacle over The Wolfman ), but Mark Romanek finally has a second feature under his belt. And it’s not wanting for prestige: Opening today in limited release, Never Let Me Go features Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield as a trio of school friends turned romantic rivals turned… well, it’s complicated. And, as Romanek sympathized, worth keeping on the downlow for folks unfamiliar with Kazuo Ishiguro’s celebrated, genre-bending source novel. The director spoke further with Movieline about the variety of his young cast, the perils of marketing, and the pop star who might have the sway to draw him back to the music-video form that made him legendary.

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At TIFF: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer Bond in Bittersweet Beginners

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It’s often said — and most often by people in relationships themselves — that no one can ever really know what happens between two people in love, or even those marking time in a marriage. And yet, in the case of a child or some otherwise invested third party, it is possible to be molded against a relationship so tightly that, once peeled away, one is left with a pretty good impression of its contours. In Beginners , Mike Mills’s loose, feeling, evidently highly personal portrait of grief’s ritual excavation of memory, Oliver (Ewan McGregor) is reevaluating the impression he formed of his parents’ marriage, and the shape he’s in as a result.

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Essential Killing: Dear Vincent Gallo, Why Do You Torment Me So?

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Oh, Vincent Gallo! There’s no escaping you. You follow me from continent to continent, from festival to festival. Last week, in Venice, I saw your strange little picture Promises Written in Water (also playing here in Toronto), and while I wasn’t wowed, I couldn’t quite dismiss it, either. But while in Venice, I missed Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski’s Essential Killing, which netted you the Best Actor award there — in fact, you’ve got pretty much the only role, aside from Emmanuelle Seigner, who appears very late in the picture. So today in Toronto, I decided to check out Essential Killing. I needed to see for myself if you really deserved that award, you scalawag, you.

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James Gunn on His TIFF Hit SUPER, Sidekick Sex and Blending Art House with the Grindhouse

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James Gunn just spent one of the most successful weekends of his life in Toronto, premiering his new superhero-splatter-comedy SUPER to Midnight Madness raves before selling it off to IFC Films in the festival’s first distribution deal. In the end, though, Gunn’s biggest triumph may have come in writing and directing the film he wanted to make exactly how he wanted to make it, with Rainn Wilson’s nobody Frank adopting the crimefighting persona the Crimson Bolt after his wife (Liv Tyler) is all but kidnapped by a local drug baron (Kevin Bacon). It’s a lot harder than it sounds in an age of indie-market turbulence, comic-book genre saturation, and even Gunn’s own creative apprehensions following his 2006 debut Slither . He spoke to Movieline about these and other subjects — from Joe Strummer to God — over the weekend.

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